This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

The history of Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saint, who is credited by myths with bringing Christianity to the Irish and driving the snakes out of Ireland. Saint Patrick is the patron saint of ...

NEW HAVEN -- For three generations, Mayor John DeStefano Jr.'s family has considered the Hospital of Saint Raphael its hospital. On Tuesday, it was time to pay tribute to the order of nuns that ran ...